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Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the late 20th century that sports medicine emerged as a distinct field of health care.
James Andrews (born May 2, 1942) is retired American orthopedic surgeon. He is a surgeon for knee, elbow, and shoulder injuries [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is a specialist in repairing damaged ligaments . Practicing in Gulf Breeze, Florida , Andrews has become one of the best-known and most popular orthopedic surgeons and has performed on many high ...
The History of Women, Health, and Medicine in America: An Encyclopedic Handbook (Garland Publishing, 1990) Numbers, Ronald L. "The History of American Medicine: A Field in Ferment" Reviews in American History 10#4 (1982) 245-263 in JSTOR; Shryock, Richard H. "The Significance of Medicine in American History."
James Naismith (NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.
Native American sports and games (4 C, 25 P) P. Pickleball (7 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Sports originating in the United States"
American Sports Medicine Institute [2] (ASMI) located in Birmingham, Alabama was founded in 1986 by Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Lawrence Lemak with original funding from HealthSouth Corporation. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the understanding, prevention, and treatment of sports -related injuries through research ...
American Journal of Sports Medicine is a monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal, first published in 1974. It is the official publication of AOSSM, and is ranked 1st out of 63 journals in Orthopaedics [ 6 ] and 5th out of 84 journals in Sport Sciences [ 7 ] in Thomson Reuters’s 2012 Journal Citation Reports, with an Impact Factor of 4.439 ...
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) is a large sports medicine membership organization, representing over 3000 physicians in the United States, established in 1991. [1] AMSSM includes members who serve as team physicians at the youth level, NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, MLS, and NHL, as well as with Olympic and Paralympic ...